Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:36x24 The print carries the Jacksonian

The print carries the Jacksonian creed forward into a decade that would test every inch of it

issued in the year a bullet at a Washington railway station would cut his presidency to mere months — the lithograph carries the steady gaze of a man the country had only just begun to read

and edges that turned a daily chore into a small civic ceremony

carriages wheeling past the southwest gate of the park in the unhurried choreography of a city still learning its own scale

Discovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 Size:36x24 The print carries the JacksonianDiscovery of the Mississippi by Ferdinand De Soto and His Followers, May 1541 a documentary engraving steeped in the heroic mode, casting the Spaniard and his armored retinue at the riverbank as if conquest were a sacrament. The composition treats a contested arrival as revelation, the Mississippi rendered less as geography than as inheritance. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of